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Prema — Let Your Love Soar — Part 1

How to let human love soar, roar and explode into ecstatic love

Trickles of love can become a mighty life-renewing river. This state of intense love is called prema. In prema, your love soars, roars and explodes into ongoing ecstatic love. You discover you are one of the most fortunate people in the world.

Devotional Yoga, Devotion, Love, Sri Ramakrishna
  • Bhakti matures into prema, divine love, the most intense love
  • Sri Ramakrishna (1836 – 1886) repeatedly demonstrated bhakti and prema, teaching that the easiest way to succeed is to cultivate the heart’s true feeling and allow bhakti to develop
  • Ecstatic bhakti transforms the body, mind and heart into a vehicle that can maintain Spirit
  • Resonate with Sri Ramakrishna’s words on bhakti and prema:  “The lover of God enjoys God in different ways. The whole thing is to love God and taste His sweetness.”
  • There are many different attitudes through which to enjoy God:  as child, servant, friend, fiancée, and partner
  • Discover ways to cultivate bhakti which then develops into prema

When Bhakti Becomes Prema

There comes a day when bhakti, the devotion that we have within, is allowed to fully express. We enter into awe and lose all awareness of ego, body and the world. That’s the experience of prema, divine love, the most intense mature love.

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